Aurora Leigh

ISBN-13: 9780393962987 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 584 str.

Elizabeth B. Browning

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"Backgrounds and Contexts" includes thirty letters or letter excerpts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning that trace Aurora Leigh's inception, evolution, and publication Seven contemporary documents--on the "woman question," prostitution, socialism, and poetic theory--place the text historically "Criticism" collects twenty-five assessments of Aurora Leigh from the period 1899-1993 A wide range of opinion is provided by George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ellen Moers, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Angela Leighton, Deirdre David, Dorothy Mermin, and Margaret Reynolds, among others A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.